Neuromorphic hardware for sustainable AI data centers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02521v2
• Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:46:24 GMT
• Title: Neuromorphic hardware for sustainable AI data centers
• Authors: Bernhard Vogginger, Amirhossein Rostami, Vaibhav Jain, Sirine Arfa, Andreas Hantsch, David Kappel, Michael Schäfer, Ulrike Faltings, Hector A. Gonzalez, Chen Liu, Christian Mayr, Wolfgang Maaß,
• Abstract summary: Neuromorphic hardware takes inspiration from how the brain processes information. Despite its potential, neuromorphic hardware has not found its way into commercial AI data centers. This article aims to increase awareness of the challenges of integrating neuromorphic hardware into data centers.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As humans advance toward a higher level of artificial intelligence, it is always at the cost of escalating computational resource consumption, which requires developing novel solutions to meet the exponential growth of AI computing demand. Neuromorphic hardware takes inspiration from how the brain processes information and promises energy-efficient computing of AI workloads. Despite its potential, neuromorphic hardware has not found its way into commercial AI data centers. In this article, we try to analyze the underlying reasons for this and derive requirements and guidelines to promote neuromorphic systems for efficient and sustainable cloud computing: We first review currently available neuromorphic hardware systems and collect examples where neuromorphic solutions excel conventional AI processing on CPUs and GPUs. Next, we identify applications, models and algorithms which are commonly deployed in AI data centers as further directions for neuromorphic algorithms research. Last, we derive requirements and best practices for the hardware and software integration of neuromorphic systems into data centers. With this article, we hope to increase awareness of the challenges of integrating neuromorphic hardware into data centers and to guide the community to enable sustainable and energy-efficient AI at scale.

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